I THINK it did pretty well... for the kind of game it is. Given how it's supposed to have been a very low budget game I imagine the threshold for success was very small.

Now, Lords of Arcana, pretty sure that was a straight up bomb. it'd explain why we didn't the update/sequel/whatever here for Vita ASAP despite being a launch title.

EDIT: And it's hard to find any concrete info. I know it was the best selling PSP game in the month it came out, which doesn't say much but may be a positive sign that at least among PSP owners it was far from ignored.

I THINK it did pretty well... for the kind of game it is. Given how it's supposed to have been a very low budget game I imagine the threshold for success was very small.

Now, Lords of Arcana, pretty sure that was a straight up bomb. it'd explain why we didn't the update/sequel/whatever here for Vita ASAP despite being a launch title.

EDIT: And it's hard to find any concrete info. I know it was the best selling PSP game in the month it came out, which doesn't say much but may be a positive sign that at least among PSP owners it was far from ignored.

Arcana might as well have bombed, it didn't have much/any competition the month it came out here. Lord of Apocalypse is the PSP/Vita sequel, which didn't do all that well in Japan if I recall. Pretty sure TO at LEAST did quite a bit better than Arcana here. :P

Arcana might as well have bombed, it didn't have much/any competition the month it came out here. Lord of Apocalypse is the PSP/Vita sequel, which didn't do all that well in Japan if I recall. Pretty sure TO at LEAST did quite a bit better than Arcana here. :P

One of the other likely reasons (in the case of FFT at least) was to differentiate it from the 'main' FF titles at the time. Unlike Shining Force, Fire Emblem, etc., FF wasn't exactly known for strategy RPG elements until that game. =P

Ragnarok games are a little more all over the map I think, and its Japanese name was probably too long anyway. Hell I'm surprised this game is even coming over.

I wasn't expecting this to be localized. On the other hand, if I had to choose which JP tactics games were most likely to be localized, this would be a far more likely choice than stuff like Queen's Blade, Daisenryaku, Moe Moe Daisensou, SRW, etc.